1,2-Diketones have been reacted in one-pot method with 1,2-diamines at room temperature with ZnO nanoparticles as a catalyst. ZnO nanoparticles as an available and reusable catalyst is used for the synthesis of Quinoxalinein improved yields.

Some functionalized 1,2,4,5-tetrasubstituted imidazole derivatives were synthesized using a one-pot, four component reaction involving 1,2-diketones, aryl aldehydes, ammonium acetate and substituted aromatic amines. The synthesis has been efficiently carried out in a solvent free medium using β-cyclodextrin-propyl sulfonic acid as a catalyst to afford the target compounds in excellent yields. T...

Recently described scientific literature has identified the airborne presence of 2,3-butanedione (diacetyl) and 2,3-pentanedione at concentrations approaching or potentially exceeding the current American Conference of Industrial Hygienists' (ACGIH) Threshold Limit Values (TLVs) at commercial coffee roasting and production facilities. Newly established National Institutes of Occupational Safety...

A simple, chemoselective transfer hydrogenation of aryl aldehydes with the aid of Amberlite((R)) resin formate (ARF), a stable H-donor, in the presence of catalytic ruthenium trichloride is described. Aromatic aldehydes and 1,2-diketones are reduced efficiently and selectively, while aryl ketones remain unchanged. Several other potentially reducible groups attached to the aromatic moiety are un...

1. Hydrogen cyanide inhibited acetoacetate decarboxylase only when incubated with the enzyme in the presence of car-bony1 compounds. This resulted in an inhibitory synergism between hydrogen cyanide and carbonyl compounds. This synergism was used to investigate the comparative abilities of various carbonyl compounds to form Schiff’s bases at the active site of the enzyme. The order of effective...

Multiple-stranded helicates are of interest in respect of their simplicity in geometry and significance in biology and materials. Bis-β-diketones have shown their advantage in terms of structure and geometry in the construction of multiple-stranded helicates, but further studies on their properties are limited due to their poor crystallization. In this study, solvents are found to play a decisi...

in present paper a simple procedure for the synthesis of enaminones without catalyst from 1,3-diketones that reacted with primary or secondary amines in ethanol as solvent, as well as the reaction of enaminones with unsaturated esters such as dimethyl acetylene dicarboxylate are reported.

Cuticular wax composition greatly impacts plant responses to dehydration. Two parallel pathways exist in Triticeae for manipulating wax composition: the acyl elongation, reduction, and decarbonylation pathway that is active at the vegetative stage and yields primary alcohols and alkanes, and the β-diketone pathway that predominates at the reproductive stage and synthesizes β-diketones. Variatio...